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Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps: Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources T. C. Weiskel Dipl. Soc. Anthrop (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MLS, FRGS Accessing Historical Maps of Africa for Research and Teaching Tips &

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Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps:

Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources

T. C. Weiskel
Dipl. Soc. Anthrop (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MLS, FRGS

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Accessing Historical Maps

f Africa

for Research and Teaching

Tips & Techniques for Online Use & Citation

The Africa Map Circle

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The Africa Map Circle

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The Africa Map Circle

Why Africa Maps Matter

The African continent

was arguably the first

ne in the world to be

mapped in its full

utline.
Africa maps were

largely created by non-Africans.

These maps therefore

require international and multi-cultural teams of students and scholars to be analyzed adequately.

…therefore, Africa maps

can only be understood as multi-cultural documents.

Digital technology now

makes it possible to share and analyze these maps around the globe.

The result is that the collaborative study of Africa maps can now provide a new paradigm for international and multicultural teaching & learning.

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The Africa Map Circle

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So let’s take a look briefly at six different

nline historical map resources on Africa…

….starting with the

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=Africa

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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf 8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=Africa+maps#

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https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa

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https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/8132f520-e3fb-012f- c5b6-0019b9e633c5-f

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https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/1c 2e2200-c12d-4c7f-8b87-a935c349898a

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…. and finally, one of the most powerful and immediately useful online libraries in the in the world….

http://www.afriterra.org/

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So let’s take a look briefly at six different

nline historical map resources on Africa…

Logo Online Collection Online Access

The Library of Congress – Digital Maps of Africa https://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=Africa NYPL- Digital Collections, Africa Maps https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/sea rch/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywor ds=Africa+maps# Stanford University - Maps of Africa Online https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-

f-africa

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Logo Online Collection Online Access

The University of Illinois - Maps

f Africa to 1900

https://digital.library.illinois.edu/colle ctions/8132f520-e3fb-012f-c5b6- 0019b9e633c5-f Northwestern University - Digital Collections https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/c

llections/1c2e2200-c12d-4c7f-8b87-

a935c349898a The Afriterra Foundation http://www.afriterra.org/

So let’s take a look briefly at six different

nline historical map resources on Africa…

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Responding to Our Current Circumstance….

The COVID-19 lockdown has radically altered research,

teaching, and learning in African studies at all levels -- from K-12 classrooms through advanced post-doctoral archival research.

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Responding to Our Current Circumstance….

The COVID-19 lockdown has radically altered research,

teaching, and learning in African studies at all levels -- from K-12 classrooms through advanced post-doctoral archival research.

For the foreseeable future it will no longer be possible to

watch a movie together in classroom, nor can groups take field-trips to museums to view important Africa collections, nor will it be possible to assemble in auditoriums to hear from a visiting guest speaker reporting on current circumstances in Africa.

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Responding to Our Current Circumstance….

Further, while African studies has had to go “virtual” almost
vernight, there are, so far, very few online “textbooks” that

are accessible to assist teachers to design “virtual” classroom materials and teach under COVID-19 circumstances.

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Responding to Our Current Circumstance….

Further, while African studies has had to go “virtual” almost
vernight, there are, so far, very few online “textbooks” that

are accessible to assist teachers to design “virtual” classroom materials and teach under COVID-19 circumstances.

Fortunately, online African map libraries can help in this

circumstance….. Both faculty AND students can begin now to use these online libraries to build new online curricula for learning & teaching about Africa….

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For further discussion of these issues, please attend the online panel discussion during the African Studies

Association 2020

nline Annual

Meetings.

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Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps:

Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources

T. C. Weiskel
Dipl. Soc. Anthrop (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MLS, FRGS